Robert Adam famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.
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We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.
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By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.
-- Robert Adam
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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
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The day of individual happiness has passed.
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No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
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All my experiences removed geography from my world.
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It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
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We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.
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Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
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Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.
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